Ownership Directors
Carl Livingood
Founder and President
Carl Livingood brings over 25 years of engineering and business experience to GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc. Carl’s passion for combining GPS and GIS technologies with intuitive software enables utilities to dramatically boost field worker productivity and speed informed, in-the-field decisions. He uses an engineering methodology to assess and break down problems into manageable pieces, and helps communicate these ideas to stakeholders. Carl feels one of the most rewarding parts of his work is meeting and getting to know people, helping them with their problems, and seeing them succeed.
Carl also comes with a lineage of innovation as his grandfather, Jesse F. Livingood, an inventor and garage tinkerer, patented a wheel attachment for a front-wheel drive motor vehicle in 1930, in addition to steam engines and home heating systems. Before founding GSI, Carl served as a Planning Engineer and GIS Project Manager for Allegheny Power and as a Product Manager and Senior GIS Consultant for Cook-Hurlbert, Inc. of Austin, Texas. He earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University and is a registered Professional Electrical Engineer in Pennsylvania.
Outside of GSI, Carl enjoys following the Pittsburgh Steelers, Penguins, and Pirates and also contributes to Muscular Dystrophy Association and other charitable organizations. He lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife Lisa and two children, Tyler and Lexi.
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Lisa Livingood
Chairperson, Secretary & Treasurer
Lisa Livingood co-founded the company with her husband Carl 13 years ago. In addition to her ownership responsibilities serving as Secretary/Treasurer, she leads daily accounting, human resources, and administrative activities for GSI. She earned her BA in Business Administration from Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA in 1995. Her previous professional experience includes accounting and IT roles at a law firm, a consumer products company, and an electric utility.
Lisa is an active parent in her children’s school, including organizing several of the school’s fundraisers. She started and chairs the school’s Annual Golf Outing fundraiser for the past 5 years to upgrade its computer lab and classroom technology. Lisa currently resides in Washington, PA, with her husband Carl, their son Tyler and daughter Lexi.
Michelle Day
Co-Owner & Officer
Michelle graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 and has worked as a Project Engineer for Calgon Carbon Corporation. Michelle resides in Washington, PA with her husband Tom Day and their children, Nicole and Thomas III.
Senior Management
Michael Hamsa
Vice President
Michael Hamsa is Vice President of Technology at GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc. (GSI). Michael has been leading the software development teams at GSI since April of 2001 and has built the company’s software product portfolio up to include software modules targeting many different business processes in the utility and military verticals.
Michael has 20 years of experience working with and developing on many different GIS software platforms, including GE Smallworld CST, ESRI ArcGIS and Enghouse Cablecad and GeoNet. During this time he has also worked very closely leading and developing independent software solutions using a wide range of technologies, both software and hardware, and has successfully led and completed many different large scale software development projects.
From his initial involvement at GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc. in 2001, Michael has helped grow the company from its starting size of only 2 employees into a thriving software company with employees in Austin, Pennsylvania, and Chicago. He has also been instrumental in gaining many different large electric, natural gas and US Department of Defense customers in over 28 States and 2 Canadian Provinces.
Michael is the inventor of patented software technology, an accomplished mountain biker placing 7th overall in the 1995 Texas Fall Cup Series and 11th overall in the 1997 Texas Championship Series, as well as an Eagle Scout. He has presented papers at many different trade shows on various software and hardware technologies and has received a speaker award at the 2001 GITA annual conference.
Michael lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Julie and 3 children, Emily, Matthew and Amanda.
David Little
Director Technology Services
David Little brings nearly 20 years of technical development and management experience to GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc. David is responsible for the design, consulting, implementation, and management of GIS and other software solutions and has extensive expertise with GE Smallworld. David is known for his breadth of knowledge in his field and his ability to help clients with their particular needs.
David possesses a worldly outlook thanks to his military family who provided his upbringing in locations such as Germany and Turkey. Before being recruited by GSI, David studied Computer Science in Austin, Texas and served as Manager of Programming Services for Cook-Hurlbert, Inc.
Outside of his work for GSI, David immerses himself in the sporting world and enjoys following Austin teams like the University of Texas’ Longhorns. He is also active in coaching his two children’s school sports teams.
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Ben Contra
Ben ran the day-to-day operations of Trivantis, an e-learning software company. sales, tactical marketing, client relationships, support, and Custom Development Services. In his tenure at Trivantis, Ben increased the company’s market share across the globe, introduced several new product lines, and has had nine straight years of record growth. Due to this success, Trivantis’ flagship product, Lectora, is now the standard authoring tool at over 2,000 multi-national companies across 70 countries, all five military branches, and Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble, Sprint, and Pfizer.
Prior to joining Trivantis, Ben spent 10 years as Vice President of Hobsons-US (CollegeView), where he consulted with universities in creating marketing programs using web-connected CD-ROMs and software to attract students for enrollment. He grew the business from a start-up company to one of the leading university recruiting programs in the country, working with universities such as Harvard, SUNY, and Penn State.
Ben earned his bachelor’s degree from Heidelberg College, where he majored in Political Science, Communications, and Theatre Arts. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, and enjoys spending time with his wife and their three daughters.
Tom Day
Tom Day is the CEO of West Point Products, a U.S. based manufacturer and distributor of consumable supplies for the printing and imaging industry. He led a small group of investors and acquired the company in December 1998, and has been running the company for the past 13 years. Under his leadership the company has grown over tenfold in size and currently employs 550 people.
Tom earned his B.S. in Accounting in 1988. He began his professional career in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand working in the financial audit department specializing in manufacturing clients. He joined Washington Steel Corporation in December of 1991 and held various management positions in finance, budgeting & planning, operations analysis, and production control. He joined North American Refractories Company in July of 1997 where he served as financial Controller.
In 2000, Tom was elected to the Board of Directors of the Ohio Valley Industrial and Business Development Corporation, a non-profit organization, where he served for 3 years. In 2006 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Imaging Technology Council, a non-profit trade association for the imaging supplies industry, and in 2010 he was elected to serve on its’ Executive Committee, a position he holds today.
Tom and his wife Michelle ’89 reside in Washington, PA, and are Lifetime members of the Alumni Association, becoming Sustaining Life Members in 2011. Their daughter Nicole is a freshman at Penn State, and their son Tommy will follow in the fall of 2012.
Robert Henry
Robert is Director of Integrated System Planning with First Energy, the nation’s largest investor-owned electric system serving six million customers in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, where he is responsible for developing new transmission and generation opportunities.
Robert worked for over 16 years at Allegheny Power (now part of First Energy) in Director and Vice President roles in asset management, operations, and distribution.
As Director of Asset Management, Robert was responsible for developing the organizational model and for implementing asset management concepts for a Fortune 400 corporation with $ 3.4 billion in assets. As Vice President, he was responsible for a profitable turnkey engineering and construction of 7 operational combustion turbine generation units to a customer in Southern Mississippi. His administrative responsibilities included managing 1200 employees, a capital budget of $120 million, and an expense budget of $115M.
Robert has served as both faculty and campus advisory member in the Advanced School of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, served on the Board of Directors for Allegheny Valley Hospital, United Way of Kiski Valley, New Kensington Chamber of Commerce, and as Chairman of Jr. Achievement of Southwest PA among others.
Robert holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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